"A hard rain has begun as everyone hoped.
"While Israeli bombers roar low and unseen overhead, it washes the blood from the streets." (p. 145)
He means the blood of bulls slaughtered for the feast of Abraham's sacrifice but maybe this passage also expresses an aspiration for a future without the shedding of human blood?
Bob Dylan used the phrase, "a hard rain," with a completely different meaning.
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